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exploring emergent cultural archipelagos

[anika meier @postanika]

Spoke with @_deafbeef today. Interview coming soon.

»The meaning of an artwork isn't inherent in the object itself. Meaning emerges through relationships.«

– 0xDEAFBEEF

[conrad house @DlSPUTED]

the best art is, always has, and always will be made outside of traditional art spaces.

[ArtMeta @artmetaofficial]

Introducing the Digital Art Summit 2026

July 15, 2026 | Basel, Switzerland
Register: https://t.co/sJldbHROC9

Presented by ArtMeta in partnership with @arabbankCH, @RtClick_Save, and @lerandomart.

​Digital art spans more than 70 years of experimentation among art, science, and technology. The Digital Art Summit brings together artists, collectors, curators, and institutional voices for a full day of conversations at the intersection of art history, technology, and cultural infrastructure.

Taking place during Art Basel week, the Summit examines how digital art is made, collected, legitimized, and remembered, tracing a line from the earliest computational practices to the systems and protocols shaping artistic production today.

[matdryhurst @matdryhurst]

Making models is art

[Amadon @amadon]

Digital art has a structural problem when artists become the support system for collectors.

A handful of collectors get centered as main characters while artists do the cultural labor underneath them.

The pyramid is upside down.

[aiio @aiio_studio]

@Pixel0Symphony @MeditateColor This is beautiful. I can spend hours here.

[Pixel Symphony @Pixel0Symphony]

Introducing Meditations in Color.

I built it as the color archive and drawing studio I always wanted: a way to experiment with palettes from artworks I love, distill their colors, follow an artist’s chromatic journey, and find inspiration.

A meditation, in color.
@MeditateColor

[matdryhurst @matdryhurst]

Now these semantics might not matter

Where “digital art” has made sense was in art fair territory where it represents a new and forward thinking school of collectors and artists from online subcultures. Distinct not because the work is digital, but because the work is uninhibited by permission from a gallery system that does not know how to sell digital work and doesn’t understand concepts that are native to those worlds

Contemporary art galleries are caught between a rock and a hard place because they don’t know how to sell the new and yet their narrative is entirely dependent on selling the new

So whatever we call it, the 21st century won’t go away

[austin thomas robey @austinrobey_]

Subvert is launching in a week

[Jediwolf @Jediwolf]

The era of multi-layered art systems has begun - an inevitable step beyond standalone objects. Artists build worlds - not pieces. Collectors don’t just hold - they inhabit and shape the story from within.

[Rune Brink / Spogel @spogelsemaskine]

antidote

[𝖘𝖔𝖗𝖊𝖓 𝖏𝖔𝖍𝖓 @sorenwrenn]

Why artist models?

Generic (walmart) models have one center of gravity. Every prompt collapses toward it.

Artist models sit off-center and expand the possibility space for creative production.

[aiio @aiio_studio]

@spogelsemaskine @kunstfond Yes! Big congrats 🔥

[Brooklyn! @imbabybrooklyn]

Taught Hermes how to use pretext 😊
@_chenglou @NousResearch

[El Barba Roja blue check @redbeardnft]

Take a look @RtClick_Save dropped their quarterly

It’s Amazing & exactly what needed

“At a time when art and technology are increasingly entangled, ART & TECHhelps you to make sense of the latest developments in the art ecosystem”

This is how we build

https://t.co/2KQ7vG9rBL

[100 collectors @100collectors]

The Venice Biennale opens next week, and digital art is having its moment alongside the traditional pavilions. From Protocol Art at Palazzo Diedo (where algorithms become artistic material) with @hollyherndon @matdryhurst @HUObrist to @ArtistisPresent’s avatar at Gallerie dell'Accademia with @taex_com, the collision of centuries-old Venice with cutting-edge digital practice creates something entirely new.

Take the digital art agenda with you!

https://t.co/DzcNCLQrXY

[sougwen 愫君 @sougwen]

Next week in Venice!

Presenting Looming Operations — a new lecture performance — at @berggruendiedo for Palazzo Diedo Opening Week.

Wed May 6, 17:00 · Venice

Before the Jacquard loom taught binary to humans, silk had already been encoding pattern for millennia. The first computer was a weaving machine; the first program, a thread.

Looming Operations is the first public articulation of the next chapter of Drawing Operations: a three-body regulating loop between human, machine, and silkworm. The silkworm extrudes silk; the brain extrudes signal; the hand extrudes mark. Three bodies inscribing themselves, each producing an interior world — cocoon, drawing, computation — that is both protection and catalyst.

Followed by the Strange Rules Mini Marathon (17:30–19:00) with Mat Dryhurst, Holly Herndon, and Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with New Models, Joshua Citarella, Agnieszka Kurant, Fabien Giraud, Trevor Paglen, Simon Denny, Ayoung Kim, Primavera De Filippi, Lorenzo Senni, terra0, and Lawrence Abu Hamdan.
🌀

[Sasha Stiles | AI alter ego Technelegy ✍️🤖 @sashastiles]

With the @SuperRare x @objktcom NYC popup at an end, the first physical pages from A LIVING POEM are moving on to their next lives in other contexts. It’s meant a lot to debut these pieces with my web3/digital art community; thank you to everyone who has supported, collected, and followed along. If you’ve been considering an acquisition from the collection, please reach out before I commit them to their next chapter. x

[Fellowship @fellowshiptrust]

On 4 May 2026, Palazzo Diedo presents “Strange Rules”, a new interdisciplinary project curated by @matdryhurst and @hollyherndon, @HUObrist with Adriana Rispoli

The exhibition introduces the concept of Protocol Art, a practice that engages with the underlying rules that dictate how culture is produced, distributed and perceived in the digital age. Algorithms, artificial intelligence models, platforms and technological infrastructures are brought into focus not as neutral tools, but as structures that actively shape meaning and experience.

“Strange Rules” shifts attention from the artwork as a fixed object to the artwork as a process, unfolding through instructions, interactions and systems. Across Palazzo Diedo, the project takes the form of a dynamic environment, where installations, performances, screenings and research activities redefine the relationship between art, technology and collective participation.

The project will transform the historic architecture of Palazzo Diedo into a dynamic laboratory of ideas:

-The Ground Floor features a major new collaborative commission by Mat Dryhurst and Holly Herndon in partnership with SUB. This level will function as a vibrant hub for time-based interventions, including lectures, performances, and screenings. Visitors can also explore the unique installation that runs for the duration of the exhibition.

-The First Floor presents a series of site-specific installations and selected video works that expand on the themes of Protocol Art, creating a direct dialogue with the activations occurring on the ground floor.

-Second Floor - Palazzo Diedo's Black Box presents a selection of video works that probe the intricate layers of contemporary society, its entaglement with technology, and the invisible protocols quietly underpinning them.

📆 4 May – 22 November 2026
📍 Palazzo Diedo, Venice